PHYSICAL EDUCATION

As a planned, sequential instruction that promotes lifelong physical activity, designed to develop
basic movement skills, sports skills, and physical fitness as well as to enhance mental, social, and
emotional abilities.

It is the integral part of the educational program design to promote the optimum development of
the individual, physically, mentally, emotionally through total body movement in the performance of
properly selected physical activities.

Physical Education is "education through the physical". It aims to develop students’ physical
competence and knowledge of movement and safety, and their ability to use these to perform in a wide
range of activities associated with the development of an active and healthy lifestyle. It also develops
students’ confidence and generic skills, especially those of collaboration, communication, creativity,
critical thinking and aesthetic appreciation. These, together with the nurturing of positive values and
attitudes in PE, provide a good foundation for students’ lifelong and life-wide learning.

Four objectives of physical education

PE is "education through the physical". It aims to develop students’ physical competence and
knowledge of movement and safety, and their ability to use these to perform in a wide range of activities
associated with the development of an active and healthy lifestyle.

Physical education, also known as gym class, is a class taught in kindergarten through 12th
grade that involves student participation in physical activity. The goal of physical education classes is to
introduce students to the basic elements of exercise that will lead to a healthy lifestyle.

Importance of Physical Education

Physical activity or exercise can improve your health and reduce the risk of developing several
diseases like type 2 diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular disease. Physical activity and exercise can have
immediate and long-term health benefits. Most importantly, regular activity can improve your quality of life.

The main purpose of health and wellbeing within Curriculum for Excellence is to develop the
knowledge and understanding , skills, capabilities, and attributes necessary for mental, emotional, social
and physical wellbeing now and in the future.

The objective of “Physical Education” discipline (thematic learning modules: “Physical Education”,
“Applied Physical Education”) is to develop a comprehensive outlook of an individual with a strong civic
position, moral qualities, sense of responsibility, an independent, initiative, tolerant person who is able to
successfully socialize and to use different forms of physical education and sports in daily life to protect his
or her own health and promote effective professional activities.

What are the characteristics of a physically educated person?

A physically educated person :

1. Demonstrates competency in many movement forms and proficiency in a few movement forms
2. Applies movement concepts and principles to the learning and development of motor skills
3. Exhibits a physically active lifestyle.
4. Achieves and maintains a health-enhancing level of physical fitness.
5. Demonstrates responsible personal and social behavior in physical activity settings.
6. Demonstrates understanding and respect for differences among people in physical activity
settings.
7. Understands that physical activity provides opportunities for enjoyment, challenge, self-
expression, and social interaction.
The purpose of the discipline is:

1. Understanding the meaning of physical education for an individual development and improving
general health for professional activity;
2. Fostering motivational attitude to the physical education, healthy lifestyle and regular exercising;
3. Learning special knowledge, practical skills, which provide health protection, form compensatory
process, correct present health abnormalities, provide mental prosperity, development and
improvement of psychophysical skills, form professional qualities of an individual;
4. Body’s adaptation for physical and mental workload and also at the increasing of the capability of
physiological systems as well as raising of the resistance of immune defenses;
5. Learning the methodology of formation and taking health exercises independently, the methods of
self-control while exercising, hygiene rules and sound schedule for work and rest;
6. Learning how to resist unfavorable factors and working conditions, decreasing fatigue during
professional activities and raising the quality of results.

Four objectives of physical education are to help individuals become physically fit, develop character,
learn skills and become knowledgeable about sport. Physical education creates well-rounded people.

1. Fitness
This includes developing muscle strength, endurance, flexibility and agility. For example, throwing
and hitting balls exercises various muscles, track running improves heart health and aerobics increases
lung capacity.

2. Character
Physical education encourages participants to work as components of a team, showing them how
to successfully work together to reach a goal. A sense of fair play is fostered as well as an awareness of
and sensitivity toward others.

3. Skills
Many skills are learned during physical education classes, including how to position the body for
various sporting activities, how to keep safe when stretching the body to its limits and how to mentally
prepare for sporting events.

4. Sport
Participants learn about particular sports' rules, techniques and strategies, often enabling them to
cope successfully in real-life situations.

The main purpose of health and wellbeing within Curriculum for Excellence is to develop the
knowledge and understanding, skills, capabilities and attributes necessary for mental, emotional, social
and physical wellbeing now and in the future.

Physical Education in College

Bachelor of Physical Education in the Philippines. The Bachelor of Physical Education is a four-
year degree program in the Philippines that will train you in developing and maintaining the optimal
physical fitness and functionality individuals. The concepts of Physical Education include improvement of
physical fitness, self-discipline, strengthened peer relationship and improvement of self-esteem and
confidence of a person. The legal basis of physical education in the Philippines can be found in the
Philippine Constitution of 1987, Article 14, and Section 19. Section 19. The State shall promote
physical education and encourage sports programs, league competitions, and amateur sports,
including training for international competitions, to foster self-discipline, teamwork, and
excellence for the development of a healthy and alert citizenry.

Definition of a Physically Educated Person:

- A physically educated person: Has learned skills necessary to perform a variety of physical
activities.

1. Moves, using concepts of body awareness, space awareness, effort, and relationships.
2. Demonstrates competence in a variety of manipulative, locomotor, and nonlocomotor skills.
3. Demonstrates competence in combinations of manipulative, locomotor, and nonlocomotor skills
performed individually and with others.
4. Demonstrates competence in many different forms of physical activity.
5. Demonstrates proficiency in a few forms of physical activity.
6. Has learned how to learn new skills.
A physically educated person who participates in health-enhancing physical
activity:
- Demonstrates competence in selected motor skills
- Assesses, achieves, and maintains physical fitness.
- Applies cognitive concepts in making wise lifestyle choices.
- Exhibits appropriate person/social character traits while participating in physical activity.

STATE and NATIONAL STANDARDS FOR PHYSICAL EDUCATION :

Standard 1:
- Demonstrates competency in motor skills and movement patterns needed to perform a variety of
physical activities

Standard 2:
- Demonstrates understanding of movement concepts, principles, strategies, and tactics as they
apply to the learning and performance of physical activities.

Standard 3:
- Participates regulary in physical activity.

Standard 4:
- Achieves and maintains a health-enhancing level of physical fitness.

Standard 5:
- Exhibits responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others in physical activity
settings.

Standard 6:
- Values physical activity for health, enjoyment, challenge, self-expression, and/or social
interaction.

Activity: answer in ½ crosswise (July 27, 2019)

1. What is Physical Education?
2. Why Physical Education is important to a person’s life?
3. Differentiate the various objectives of Physical Education.
4. Enumerate the traits being possess by a physically educated individual.
 PHYSICAL FITNESS
Physical fitness is defined as the state of general well being, physically sound and healthy, along with
mental stability.
- defined as the capacity of the person to meet the physical demands of daily life and carry
out the day’s activities without undue fatigue.
- a measure of the body’s ability to function efficiently and effectively in work and leisure
activities, to be healthy, to resist hypo-kinetic diseases, and to meet emergency
situations.

Physical fitness – is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body. It is the basis of dynamic
and creative intellectual activity.
- John F. Kennedy

= Essence of Physical fitness =

1. Confidence - A person who is physically fit will be more confident in public places because they
feel more comfortable than others who are not fit.
2. Life longer - Regular exercise helps you to prevent lot of health problems including heart
diseases, diabetes, hypertension and cancer.

Exercise also support the growth of heart muscles and thereby increases the pumping
speed of blood.

PHYSICAL FITNESS TEST

A fitness test, also known as a fitness assessment, is comprised of a series of exercises that help
evaluate your overall health and physical status.
- Is a set of measures designed to determined one’s level of physical fitness.